Fixed height or width of text areas and visualizations in Spotfire®

Spotfire^® 7.12 and later lets you fix the width or height of a text area or visualization in certain positions of the page. As an example, you can easily lock the height of a text area located on the top or the bottom of the page, or the width of a text area which is on the left or right edge of the page. The same capability exists for all  visualizations, but an important usage of this is to avoid that text areas get scroll bars when viewed on small screens. 

In the illustration below the you can see a dashboard on a big screen in the background, and in the foreground the same dashboard on a smaller screen, and that the top and left text areas still retain their height and width, respectively.


 

In order to lock the height or width, click the lock icon in the toolbar: 

UPDATE: In Spotfire 10.0 and later you find the access point to locking the height or width of visuals in the menu under Visualizations->Arrange visualizations->Lock visualization area. 

All splitters between visualizations light up and a lock icon appears wherever you are able to fix the width or height. On the lock icon, a small menu shows you the available options for how to lock the height or width.

The below screenshot shows that the top text area has a locked height from the top of the page, and the user has clicked on the splitter for the left text area and is presented with the option to lock the width of the text area to the left of the page.